Graciela Chichilnisky
Graciela Chichilnisky, a Columbia University economist and mathematician, and a lead developer of the Kyoto Protocol's carbon markets, holds patents on negative carbon technology and is involved in commercialising the process. A lead author on key climate assessment reports produced by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an adviser to several U.N. organisations, her work focuses on using innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services and improve the lot of the world's poor. She is the author of some 200 scientific articles and 13 books, including most recently "Saving Kyoto: An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol".
Foot in carbon trading door for small nations?
In June 2009, a group of 43 small island nations helped to pass a U.N. General Assembly Resolution to place the issue of global warming for the first time under the aegis of the powerful U.N. Security Council. This landmark advisory resolution underscores the seriousness of the global warming crisis, and the increasing difficult problems that may result from it. ...
